This is an analysis of the poem The Christmas Gift For Mother that begins with:

In the Christmas times of the long ago,
There was one event we used to know...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabccb ccbddb eebddb ffbccbXeebaab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0010100101 111011101 111011010 0100111101 1011111101 00111110 0101100101 110101101 11011110 11010111 0110001111 11001110 11011111001 111100101 001011110 11101101101 011001001100 01011010 0100111111 101101111 11011010 1100101111 110111111 11001110 111111111001 0010110101 10010110 0010111101 111100101 111001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, and, to are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word mother at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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